On 14 November 2013 00:46, David Daney <dda...@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/2013 04:32 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:03 AM, David Daney <dda...@caviumnetworks.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 11/11/2013 09:57 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, folks, >>>> >>>> In the recent days, I figure out the mips64el rootfs and test it on >>>> Loongson 3A platform. >>>> It works well in general, it's time to release it. >>>> >>>> It can be download from: >>>> http://mips64el.debian.net/debian/rootfs/ >>>> >>>> >>> Nice! >>> >>> I tested it on our OCTEON boards. Seems to be working. I had to enable >>> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT in my kernel and edit >>> /etc/inittab >>> to put gettys on my serial ports, and set the root password. But after >>> that, it works seemingly without a hitch. >>> >> Great news, while wait... does OCTEON support little endian? >> > > Yes. The kernel.org kernel doesn't yet contain full little-endian > support, but getting little-endian support merged is on our list of things > to do. > > Hi David, out of interest, do you know if there are any commercially (ideally easily and cheaply ;-) available boards out there that can run Octeon little endian? afaik things like the CN5020 based boards like the Erlite-3 and CAM-0100 only do big, and afaik there is no (documented) way to jumper them differently. My presumption is that the Cavium Octeon devboards from Cavium themselves (available I believe, but not too cheap) can do both? Graham > David Daney > > > > >>> >>> >>> To install it, what you need to do is just unpack it to a partition >>>> and configure kernel/bootloader/fstab by yourself. >>>> >>>> This is a more detailed instruction for Loongson 3A users: >>>> http://mips64el.debian.net/debian/rootfs/README >>>> >>>> Know issues: >>>> 1. MIPS64r2 ISA is required, >>>> while we have made a agree to downgrade the requirement to >>>> mips3 in future. >>>> 2. The permission is of /usr/bin/crontab is not correct, so you >>>> need >>>> to: >>>> apt-get install cron --reinstall >>>> 3. some files in /var/cache/man are not correct, you need to: >>>> rm -rf /var/cache/man/* ; mandb >>>> >>>> PS: we have 8500+ packages built now. >>>> >>>> Happy hacking, and I am wishing your feedback. >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mips-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52841d71.3090...@caviumnetworks.com > >
